maniac

• Goldman suspected that the Union Station and Penn Station killer might be one and the same -- and that now the maniac was here in New York You got any idea yet, Manning? —  Cat and Mouse
• He was fighting like a maniac, and the other, although he certainly possessed the greater strength, was evidently out of training. —  Sweet Danger - Margery Allingham - Campion 05: 1933
• A woman was screaming that a maniac was at large and had butchered himself The mutilated man was plainly desperate. —  036 - Mystery Under the Sea
• He tore into the finale like a maniac, and brought off that last da-da da-da-dee, da-da da-da-dee, da-da da-da-dee, dah! —  June, 1943
• But the man whose wife had been the last victim came up at the moment and led an irresistible rush which bore back the hermit as well as his comrades, who had crowded round him, and in another minute the maniac was almost hacked to pieces I did not kill him--thank God!" —  Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago

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